Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities
Edited by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz and Peter Golato
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] 2020. vi, 285 pp.
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
2024 Verbal and bodily practices for addressing trouble associated with embodied moves in game play New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 187–219 | Chapter
We provide a first systematic account of how interactants manage trouble that is not localizable in talk but rather in embodied conduct in table-top game play. Interventions targeting embodied problems have been termed “remedial actions” (Lerner and Raymond 2021) or “remedies” (Arminen and… read more
2023 The competence in little words: Response patterns in German L2 interaction Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023), Betz, Emma, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 142–168 | Article
L2 frameworks, such as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, describe expected linguistic abilities at different levels of L2 development. These frameworks, and the assessment rubrics they inform, only peripherally address how L2 speakers respond to informings in interaction.… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Mobilizing others: An introduction Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities, Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen, Emma Betz and Peter Golato (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
“Mobilizing others” takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act with, and for, us. This introduction reviews recent conceptual developments, notably ‘recruitment’ (Section 1), and then opens up new territory by arguing for a more explicit focus on ‘activity’ in… read more
2020 Chapter 3. Mobilizing for the next relevant action: Managing progressivity in card game interactions Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities, Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen, Emma Betz and Peter Golato (eds.), pp. 47–82 | Chapter
This chapter discusses three different actions speakers can employ to move between two concurrently ongoing activities, playing cards and talking. Specifically, we describe three turn formats that mobilize another participant to perform the next move in a card game: (1) turns including the… read more
2015 Multimodality and coordinated participation in L2 interaction: A conversation-analytic perspective Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities, Koike, Dale and Carl S. Blyth (eds.), pp. 79–103 | Article
This study focuses on video-recorded language and bodily conduct (gesture, gaze and body posture) of L2 speakers in naturalistic conversations. Taking a conversation analytical approach, the chapter explores the details of ways L2 speakers manage talk, accomplish social actions and maintain… read more
2002 Telephone conversation openings in Persian Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 87–109 | Article
Achieving multi-unit turns: The versatile token khob in Persian extended tellings Interactional Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper provides a conversation analytical and multimodal examination of a highly ubiquitous Persian token, khob, in everyday Persian multi-unit tellings. Based upon corpora of daily interactions between family members and friends over phone and face-to-face, three functions of khob are… read more